Yahoo enables default HTTPS encryption for Yahoo Mail Since 8 .Jan .2014

Web portal now using 2,048-bit encryption keys to protect e-mail users' communication.From today, Yahoo will begin encrypting all email connections by default, offering its users the same additional security that Google rolled out for Gmail in 2010. Yahoo has now enabled Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) — denoted by 'HTTPS' in browsers' URL bar — encryption by default for its roughly 200 million Yahoo Mail users, meeting the 8 January deadline it announced last October. Anytime you use Yahoo Mail -- whether it's on the web, mobile web, mobile apps, or via IMAP, POP or SMTP -- it is 100% encrypted by default and protected with 2,048 bit certificates," Jeff Bonforte, Yahoo's senior vice president of Communication Product, wrote in a company blog post. "This encryption extends to your e-mails, attachments, contacts, as well as Calendar and Messenger in Mail." Internet message access protocol (IMAP) Post Office Protocol (POP) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)